County offers to buy DNJ property

Corner lot would become site for judicial building parking garage

10:28 PM,
Jan. 23, 2014

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County officials endorsed buying The Daily News Journal property for $600,000 to construct a parking garage next to a future judicial building Thursday night.

The newspaper, which is owned by Gannett, is selling the 1.15-acre property and searching for a smaller space in the downtown area to relocate a staff that's in a 27,000-square-foot building. The DNJ no longer operates a printing press at the location and uses the press at The Tennessean in Nashville.

All seven members of the Rutherford County Commission Property Management Committee approved the purchase plans for buying the ...